different between symposium vs auditorium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from ??????? (sumpín?, “drink together”) ???- (sun-, “together-”) + ???? (pín?, “drink”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /s?m.?po?.zi.?m/

Noun

symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)

1. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
2. A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

Related terms

• symposiast
• sympotic

Translations

See also

• symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from ??????? (sumpín?, “drink together”) ???- (sun-, “together-”) + ???? (pín?, “drink”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sym?po?si?um

Noun

symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)

1. symposium

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.po.zj?m/, /s??.p?.zj?m/

Noun

symposium m (plural symposiums)

1. symposium

Synonyms

• colloque

Further reading

• “symposium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sym?po.si.um/, [s??m?p?s?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sim?po.si.um/, [sim?p??s?ium]

Noun

symposium n (genitive symposi? or sympos?); second declension

1. symposium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• symposium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• symposium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)

1. symposium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)

1. symposium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?t?rium, from aud?t?rius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.d??t??.?i.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??.d??t??.i.?m/

Noun

auditorium (plural auditoriums or auditoria)

1. a large room for public meetings or performances
2. (in a theater, etc.) the space where the audience is located

Translations

Danish

Alternative forms

• auditorie

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?t?rium.

Noun

auditorium n (singular definite auditoriet, plural indefinite auditorier)

1. auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)

Declension

Further reading

• “auditorium” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “auditorium” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?t?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?.di?to?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: audi?to?ri?um
• Rhymes: -o?ri?m

Noun

auditorium n (plural auditoria or auditoriums, diminutive auditoriumpje n)

1. auditorium (large room for speeches, meetings, performances, etc.)

   Synonym: gehoorzaal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: auditorium

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?t?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.di.t?.?j?m/

Noun

auditorium m (plural auditoriums)

1. auditorium

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch auditorium, from Latin aud?t?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [au?d?ito?ri?m]
• Hyphenation: au?di?to?ri?um

Noun

auditorium (plural auditorium-auditorium, first-person possessive auditoriumku, second-person possessive auditoriummu, third-person possessive auditoriumnya)

1. auditorium.

   Synonym: aula

Alternative forms

• aditorium

Further reading

• “auditorium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au?.di??to?.ri.um/, [äu?d?i??t?o??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au?.di?to.ri.um/, [?u?d?i?t????ium]

Etymology 1

From aud?t?rius (“relating to a hearer or hearing”) +? -ium (nominal suffix).

Noun

aud?t?rium n (genitive aud?t?ri? or aud?t?r?); second declension

1. (law) a hearing of a cause at law, a judicial examination
2. the place where something (a discourse, a lecture) is heard; a lecture room, hall of justice
3. a school, in opposite to public life
4. an assembled group of listeners; an audience, auditory

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• aud?t?ri?lis (adjective)

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

aud?t?rium

1. inflection of aud?t?rius:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

• auditorium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auditorium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auditorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• auditorium in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• auditorium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auditorium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin auditorium

Noun

auditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorier, definite plural auditoria or auditoriene)

1. an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
2. the audience in an auditorium

Related terms

• forelesningssal

References

• “auditorium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “auditorium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin auditorium

Noun

auditorium n (definite singular auditoriet, indefinite plural auditorium, definite plural auditoria)

1. an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall
2. the audience in an auditorium

Related terms

• forelesningssal

References

• “auditorium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin aud?t?rium.

Noun

auditorium n

1. an auditorium, in particular a lecture hall

   Synonym: hörsal

2. the audience in an auditorium

Declension

Further reading

• auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• auditorium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)